Ha! Fooled you! It's not a chocolate and caramel and pecan birthday cake. (Although that would be lovely, in my opinion.) It's a cake shaped like a turtle!! Because that's what the boy wanted. I was actually quite happy with how it turned out. I got the idea off of Pinterest, of course. The design as a whole is a mash-up of two different cakes that I saw. I wanted to do more on the base cake, but I was literally finishing up the border as we walked out the door. My time management wasn't the best with this one. The square cake is two giant layers of lemon cake, torted, with two layers of home-made lemon curd filling and one layer of buttercream filling. It was gigantic. It stood almost 5 1/2 inches high (not including the turtle on top) and was incredible heavy. I should have weighed it. The turtle is a 6" round cake, vanilla-almond with buttercream filling. We served it at the party and then I took the rest to work on Monday. It was pretty good. I
Hey, long time no blog! Life just keeps on happening, and that's the only excuse I have. The kids are growing up rapidly. The boy is in high school, and the girl is in middle school. Both of them run cross country, so I (finally) got around to making cookies for them. The school logo and some general cross-country themed cookies, along with a saying from their coach. And just so this isn't the world's shortest blog post, here's a picture of my vintage kitchen: It's a weird mix of 40's and 50's, but as I'm working off of Craig's List for my décor, it's the best I can do. Well, that's all for now. Enjoy!
This year, the boy wanted a Minecraft-themed birthday cake. And since I aim to please, he got one. We had the party at my brother's house. He's got a lot more natural light than I do. See how the picture isn't yellow? He's also got more space, which is the main reason we had the party there, not just for the natural light. I really don't get the whole Minecraft craze. But it's sweeping our part of the nation. All the kids at school are playing it. All the kids at martial arts class are playing it. All the kids at my SIL's homeschool co-op are playing it. I'm baffled. Anyhoo, Minecraft is incredibly pixellated. I explained to the boy, that while I love him dearly, I don't have that kind of time. So his cake was not going to be crafted of six million individually cut squares of fondant. Being the rational young man that he is, he went with it. For those of you who aren't familiar with the Minecraft phenomena, the top tier i
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